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post #31 of 37
2/4/11 at 6:15pm
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I find that listening in a bit of light (candles, tubes, etc.) makes me extremely sad. I'm not terribly sure why, but I fixate on the light and just remember sad things. Total darkness puts me in a place that barely feels real, and it's much easier to lose myself in the music.


Yeah, me too.

 

Also, necrobump. I like this thread.



you really raised a dead here

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post #32 of 37
2/4/11 at 6:26pm

I did this once and listened through Dark Side of the Moon without stopping, man that was awesome.

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post #33 of 37
2/4/11 at 6:47pm

i used to do this with Floyd's Animals. with a set of sony headphones, the one that comes with the walkman, and i though the sounds was great ... ahhh good ole days

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post #34 of 37
2/4/11 at 8:13pm
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I did this once and listened through Dark Side of the Moon without stopping, man that was awesome.


You've only done that once...? It used to be a weekly ritual for me (substance free, no less!)

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post #35 of 37
2/7/11 at 4:48am

Coltrane's A Love Supreme in the dark over a good set-up is truly supreme.

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post #36 of 37
2/7/11 at 12:57pm

I think I'm gonna give this a try tonight. I usually listen with the lights dim, never complete darkness. Sometimes I like to just stare at my lava lamp or the tubes glowin'.

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post #37 of 37
2/7/11 at 2:20pm

Some relevant copypasta from another forum:

 

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Originally Posted by solderdude on Rock Grotto
 
In the dark we have to rely on our hearing during the day on our eyesight.
At the culmination of the dark the ears work best (around midnight).
Our internal clock works pretty well.
 
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Added bonus of late night listening... your ears are much more sensitive so you can turn down the volume a notch or few.

Human hearing has a dynamic range of about 60dB (I made a special test gear to check this) during the day this range shifts upwards (why you can't hear a clock ticking during the day but can at night) you can even shift it up much more by going to a disco or (loud) rock concert. When you step out it takes a good hour to hear the street noises again... the AGC in your brain adjusts slowly.

 

I've long held (well, as long as I've been listening to hifi, so maybe ten months) that late-night dark listening is the very best tweak out there. Any passive components - cables, vibration absorbers, what have you - none can create in you that mellow feeling of late at night when everything just sounds fantastic. I can't count the number of times that my headphones have been the cause of a late night.

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